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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 6, 1 June 1888, Page 11

A report is in circulation that the Empress Augusta, mother ot the Emperor of Germany, i 9 about to join the Catholic Church. The report first appeared in the Monlteur de Rome. It is positively stated that the Empress, after her reoeption into the Church, will leave Germany, and take up her residence in Florence. The Empress is believed to have always had a atroag leaning) to Catholicism, and was no friend of the old Catholic movement or the Kulturkampf. According to the Star " Speranza " (Lady Wilde) holds a levee every Saturday afternoon at her residence in Chelsea. Her apartments are dimly lighted ; rose-coloured shades subduing the lights of lamps and candles. In the season swarms of Americans, the bearers of letters of introduction, crowd Lady Wilde's rooms ; for to have visited Europe and not to have been received by Lady Wilde would argue a want of social standing. But amongst all " Speranz^'s " guests, none is a greater favourite than John O Connor, M.P. When the ardent poetess and the enthusiastic politician converse, the air becomes rife with revolution. Lady Wilde is a tall, handsome, and graceful woman, gifted with rare eloquence and expression, and is now, as in the days of '48, a warm Nationalist.